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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:36:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Current status of msdosfs (yet again)
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Thanks for the response. In my blissful ignorance, I deleted some files
and directories -- which didn't bother FreeBSD a bit. From what you're
telling me, it's not wise to tar up the dos file system to restore after
the format. Is there a gnuish version of tar... I'll grin and bear it.

Thanks.

-- Jay

On Sat, 3 May 1997, Robert Nordier wrote:

->Jay Nelson wrote:
->
->> I have 2.2.1-RELEASE running at work and I'm being forced to soil myself
->> with Windows. I mounted dos from X, didn't see the messages and tried
->> moving some files. Everything worked fine. Is it safe to use msdosfs or
->> was I just lucky?
->
->The problem where the msdosfs corrupted other filesystems should not
->occur in any 2.2.x-RELEASE.
->
->> This is on a 1.6Gb IDE repartitioned with fips. Is there any way I can
->> control the cluster size if I reformat or will dos fdisk/format take care 
->> of the problem? 
->
->If you used FIPS, it is a good idea to reformat.  Allow DOS format
->to choose the cluster size.  (Having the default cluster size is
->always good: that way, if DOS/Win itself becomes confused, it won't
->chop your filesystem into small little pieces. :-)  The 2.2 msdosfs
->is no longer "cluster size sensitive", though; so a reformat is not
->absolutely required.
->
->The msdosfs is reasonably safe for copying files DOS<->BSD.  But
->stay away from anything much more than that (eg. moving directories
->can cause problems).
->
->--
->Robert Nordier
->